Theories of Personality: Chapter 4 Person as Processor
Theories of Personality: Chapter 4 Person as Processor
Pribram, Pinker, Mischel, Bandura Cognitive Science Person as processor: Personality emerges from mind. Sometimes after a brain injury, personality traits emerge/are enhanced Cognitive Psychology Different from animals in that only humans can process language Ex: you can train a monkey to drive a car but the monkey will stay if the traffic light indicates so. However humans will not follow blindly and associate what a red light means/can explain things Computers The mind is like a wet computer Human mind is far superior in decision making Karl Pribam Quote Professor might notice something another might not Holographic idea: not real but mainly about how light is being played/brain is processing can create a new hologram Vision is Holographic: we may see a square but brain is interpreting square As far as we know, there is no limit to memory Brain seems to be limitless Feed-forward systems – control behaviors or processes by providing advance information Feedback – returning a part of output signal to the control devices for the purpose of “fine-tuning behaviors” Pinker Mind contains modules that are always processin Flowing data – network of information processed Programed to processed like human Language follows general rules Person as Processor moves into bottom right Move to upper left - Finding someone like their mother
Internal vs. External locus of control – responsibility for behavior The Construct – ways of interpreting and putting the world together rin our minds that may not be tied to any reality Ex. If you are a hammer, everything if going to look like a nail Reciprocal determinism – key word: interplay What you learn and what you reject Chaos Theory: in the random system, there is some plan or meaning. The brain can organize information coming in, interpreting, making understanding of information
Pribram, Pinker, Mischel, Bandura Cognitive Science Person as processor: Personality emerges from mind. Sometimes after a brain injury, personality traits emerge/are enhanced Cognitive Psychology Different from animals in that only humans can process language Ex: you can train a monkey to drive a car but the monkey will stay if the traffic light indicates so. However humans will not follow blindly and associate what a red light means/can explain things Computers The mind is like a wet computer Human mind is far superior in decision making Karl Pribam Quote Professor might notice something another might not Holographic idea: not real but mainly about how light is being played/brain is processing can create a new hologram Vision is Holographic: we may see a square but brain is interpreting square As far as we know, there is no limit to memory Brain seems to be limitless Feed-forward systems – control behaviors or processes by providing advance information Feedback – returning a part of output signal to the control devices for the purpose of “fine-tuning behaviors” Pinker Mind contains modules that are always processin Flowing data – network of information processed Programed to processed like human Language follows general rules Person as Processor moves into bottom right Move to upper left - Finding someone like their mother
Internal vs. External locus of control – responsibility for behavior The Construct – ways of interpreting and putting the world together rin our minds that may not be tied to any reality Ex. If you are a hammer, everything if going to look like a nail Reciprocal determinism – key word: interplay What you learn and what you reject Chaos Theory: in the random system, there is some plan or meaning. The brain can organize information coming in, interpreting, making understanding of information
